Simone Schwarz-Bart
Living Legends
Why Coralie Custos Quatreville recommends Simone Schwarz-Bart
“To bring such a small part of the world to the fore, knowing that it holds so many of the answers to the challenges of our time.”
Born in 1938, novelist and playwright Simone Schwarz-Bart gave Caribbean literature one of its foundational works, The Bridge of Beyond (Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, 1972), a portrait of a lineage of Black women in Guadeloupe whose stories weave together Creole and French. She had previously co-written A Woman Named Solitude (Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes, 1967) with her husband, André Schwarz-Bart, before publishing the novel Ti Jean L’Horizon (1979) and the play Ton beau capitaine (
- Place
- Goyave, Guadeloupe
- Recommended by
- Coralie Custos Quatreville
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- Living Legends · Arts & Culture
Kréyòl gwadloup
Mété douvan on si ti mòso a lèmonn, an sav ki i ka tyenbé onlo répons a défi a tan an-nou.
Né an 1938, womansyè é dramatij Simone Schwarz-Bart ba litérati karibéyèn yonn adan liv fondatè a-y, Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972), pòtré a on liyaj a fanm nwè an Gwadloup, listwa a-yo ka tisé kréyòl é fwansé ansanm. Avan, i té ko-ékri Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes (1967) èvè mari a-y, André Schwarz-Bart, avan i pibliyé woman Ti Jean L'Horizon (1979) é pyès Ton beau capitaine (1987). Ansanm, yo dirijé Hommage à la femme noire, on séri a sis liv pou fanm a listwa afriken é a dyaspora. I ka viv Goyave, an Gwadloup.
